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What a surprise!
GL, that puts me in an odd position. My 90-days is due on Feb 21, and my visa renewal expires on March 31. If they allow me to renew up to 45 days before the due date, I can do the visa renewal in the last week of February. No problem. But, if the "new boss" has cut this down to 30/31 days, I'm caught. T.I.T.
Could you have a quiet word with one of the people you know at KC, and check this?
See you soon.... maybe sooner than I'd intended.
My slow reptilian brain has just worked out that if I come in the last week of February, and they won't renew my visa, all I shall have wasted is the money the bank has charged for the financial statement.
Mike. I have been on the phone with KCI over the past 2 hour about your question. No body in KCI can speak english. I was finally contacted by an I/O from Nan Immigration on a three way conference call. In short I'm 98% sure you can do your extension 45 days early so you should have no problem with your 90 day report. As for 90 day mail in reports by post I'm getting a YES and a NO.shrug1 Who the FCUK knows.shrug1
I have just heard that those people who use a 'visa agent' in Pattaya, and pay around 12,000 Baht for their extension stamp, must now do their 90 day reporting in Jomtien.
I have just heard that those people who use a 'visa agent' in Pattaya, and pay around 12,000 Baht for their extension stamp, must now do their 90 day reporting in Jomtien.
Strange, really! Barry, the now-retired guru at Jomtien Immigration, once clarified for me that anybody can have more than one address - as I do. However, I have never yet tried reporting or extending at KCI, using our Surin address.
I can report that earlier this week an Australian with dual citizenship, Surin and Pattaya that is, was turned away by KCI when he tried to do his 90-day report. He was told that he could only do the 90-day report in Pattaya because that was the office that had issued/renewed his visa extension. In other words, if you did not obtain your visa/visa extension at KCI, KCI will not process your 90-day report.
P.S. I got this story from the 'horse's mouth' so to speak. I met the guy the same morning after his rejection by KCI. He was unfazed by the rejection and was heading back to Pattaya in the near future and with time to spare to do the 90-day report.
I thought that was always the case. My neighbour goes to Pattaya every 3 months for 90 days reporting - or at least he says that is why he goes! boobs2
If you "live" in Pattaya for the extension, then it will be assumed you also live there for the 90 day reporting. If you chop and change every time, it would likely draw suspicion.
All quite pathetic chest-thumping by regional immigration offices.
If I book a holiday in Pattaya for a month (and that coincides with my annual renewal) I would want to do the renewal in Jomtien and any 90 day reporting at KCI.
To prevent me doing that would be against the immigration regulations that Prakhonchai Nick referred to earlier.
Strange, really! Barry, the now-retired guru at Jomtien Immigration, once clarified for me that anybody can have more than one address - as I do. However, I have never yet tried reporting or extending at KCI, using our Surin address.